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2025-06-26 07:39:10

"I'm Petting the Laptop, Which Has You Inside It": Reflecting on Lived Experiences of Online Friendship
Seraphina Yong, Ashlee Milton, Evan Suma Rosenberg, Stevie Chancellor, Svetlana Yarosh
arxiv.org/abs/2506.20055

"I'm Petting the Laptop, Which Has You Inside It": Reflecting on Lived Experiences of Online Friendship
Online(-only) friendships have become increasingly common in daily lives post-COVID despite debates around their mental health benefits and equivalence to ''real'' relationships. Previous research has reflected a need to understand how online friends engage beyond individual platforms, and the lack of platform-agnostic inquiry limits our ability to fully understand the dynamics of online friendship. We employed an activity-grounded analysis of 25 interviews on lived experiences of close online …

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-07-13 18:59:13

Outrage continues to grow against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem over her response to the deadly floods that ravaged Texas last week.
According to a Friday report from The New York Times,
more than two-thirds of phone calls to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from flood victims went unanswered
after Noem allowed hundreds of contractors to be laid off on July 5, just a day after the nightmare storm.
According to The Times, this dramatical…

'Unforgivable': FEMA Missed Thousands of Calls from Texas Flood Victims After Noem Fired Contractors | Common Dreams
FEMA missed two-thirds of calls from Texas flood victims after DHS Sec. Kristi Noem allowed hundreds of call center employees to be fired. "They are intentionally breaking government," said Sen. Chris Murphy.

@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-07-17 16:40:22

Phillip Bump's farewell after being downsized by #ElHefe #Bezos #WashingtonPost is commentary focused on #DJT being unable to simply sell his on…

What Trump wants, quite explicitly, is for there to be no authority in America but his own. He wants nothing to be trusted but himself and no guidance offered but his own. And he’s aided in that by the lack of alternatives. What other institutions will Americans actually trust, particularly when they so often conflate “trust” with “what they want to hear”? It’s easy to collapse into defeatism here, particularly given the events of the past six months. But the Epstein-centered events of the pas…
There are limits to Trump’s ability to compel his supporters to believe what he says. He can’t point to the Justice Department’s assertions because he told his followers that the Justice Department was dishonest. He can’t point to the justice system for the same reason. He’s centered his politics so thoroughly on distrust that his base doesn’t even give him an immediate pass. This is nonetheless more favorable terrain for Trump than for the American system. As New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moyni…
Trump has spent a decade telling Americans that they can't trust the government. He's said a “deep state” of unelected officials is plotting against them and hiding information. He’s told them they can’t trust what they've been told about vaccines, the John FE. Kennedy assassination, or what they saw with their own eyes on January 6, 2021. Now Trump wants the nation to just trust a bunch of government officials without seeing evidence to back it up. (If it were true, as he claims, that …
TRUMP DISCOVERS MAGA HAS NO ‘OFF’ SWITCH For the first time, the president finds himself at odds with his own movement. By Peter Wehner - The Atlantic